I can easily get to the Joomla home page from inside the network, but cannot reach it from outside. In running down the problem I've discovered that my ISP is blocking Port 80 'for my protection'.

I've tried several approaches like changing the listen command in the apache ports.conf file but so far nothing I've done allows access from outside my network. I've verified that other ports, such as 8380, are not blocked by the ISP.

Is there a set up procedure within ISPConfig that will allow me to direct people to my web pages via another port such as 8380?

If it is an issue with port 80 you just need to change it, as you have stated.

I am very new to ISPConfig but I assume it only needs port 8080 and therefore any other port changes will not be an issue.

Apache is what hosts the website so that is what will need to be changed.

I have given this a quick go and it seems to work both internally and externally, however try it at your own risk - I am new to all this.

Go onto the server or remotley connect:

Code:

sudo su

get root if you can or just sudo each command below

Code:

cp /etc/apache2/ports.conf /etc/apache2/ports.conf_backupgedit

This will back up the file incase it dosent work.

Code:

cd /etc/apache2/
pico ports.conf

This will go to the directory then pico will allow you to edit that file. You want to find Listen 80 and change that to your new port number. DO NOT CHANGE the "NameVirtualHost *:80" above as you get errors. Now press ctrl + x and press y to save changes to the file and exit (if you are using pico for text editing).

Lastly run

Code:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

This resets the webserver with the new port. I have an error appear here

This is my openSSL and is the same with port 80 being used so dosent affect me.

You lastly need to open the port on your router and then in the internal ip login to ISPConfig and then systems>firewall>basic and then add firewall exception or edit the exzisting one for your server where it asks for tcp ports to allow add your new port with a comma and then save.

This should then foward your site. Your ISP may still block it. If you have any problems just recover the backed up file from the begining.

Thank you for the suggestion. I followed the instructions and am getting closer. However, I'm not quite there yet. I think the problem I have is that I'm not quite clear with the following set of instructions:

You lastly need to open the port on your router and then in the internal ip login to ISPConfig and then systems>firewall>basic and then add firewall exception or edit the exzisting one for your server where it asks for tcp ports to allow add your new port with a comma and then save.

I'll describe where I think I'm having the problem by separating the above quote into steps:

1. You lastly need to open the port on your router
2. and then in the internal ip login to ISPConfig
3. Then systems>firewall>basic and then add firewall exception or edit the exzisting one for your server where it asks for tcp ports to allow add your new port with a comma and then save

I'm OK with steps 1 and 3. It's step 2 I'm not clear on- where is this change made? Thanks.